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Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968 – 1986
February 6 - 21, 2015
Q&A with filmmaker Charles Lane and author, filmmaker, and critic Nelson George
Spike Lee’s NYU Masters program thesis (and the first student feature film ever selected for New Directors/New Films) is a precocious work from a major artist, irrefutable evidence that its maker would go on to become one of the greats.
Screening with A Place in Time (Charles Lane, 1977, 34m)
Q&A with filmmaker Charles Lane and author, filmmaker, and critic Nelson George
Spike Lee’s NYU Masters program thesis (and the first student feature film ever selected for New Directors/New Films) is a precocious work from a major artist, irrefutable evidence that its maker would go on to become one of the greats.
Screening with:
A Place in Time
Charles Lane, USA, 1977, 16mm, 34m
Courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, preserved with funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation.
Don't miss Sidewalk Stories, Charles Lane's homage to Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, on February 13 at Pioneer Works with Lane in person for Q&A.
Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
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